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Can we get more than 3hrs warning...

bobo#5090 bobo
bobo#5090
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in Player Feedback (Xbox One)
When the the Zen market is gonna be on sale. I saw nothing in the calendar before today stating there would be a huge sale, and ended up spending a few Zen late last night that I could have waited on had I known there was a sale. Is it normal for there to be only 3-4 hrs notice of a sale happening? I saw that the news post about it was time stamped at 7:00 am today, and it went live at 11am(all times MST).

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  • ecrana#2080 ecrana
    ecrana#2080
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    Giving notice defeats the purpose of having a "flash sale"... The entire idea is that you get no notice.

    There are other sales throughout the year where more notice is given but a flash sale is always a last minute notice.
  • kreatyvekreatyve Member, Neverwinter Moderator, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 10,545 Community Moderator
    There are only extremely rare circumstances when they will advertise a sale that far in advance. They wanted this one to be a surprise.
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  • johnnyreklaw#1518 johnnyreklaw
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    Totally disagree with the suggestion. The market nearly crashed on Xbox, the one platform still having a somewhat decent economy. With notice, the market would have been destroyed for the next 2 months. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised.
  • lowjohnlowjohn Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,061 Arc User
    bobo#5090 said:

    It didn't say flash sale. Also don't flash sales usually run for only an hour or 2?

    Depends on the context.

    For a worldwide game, it's very rare for a sale to run shorter than 24 hours. STO had a "flash" sale that lasted 12 hours and rightfully got a lot of complaints from people in Europe and Asia that the sale started while they were asleep, lasted partway into a workday, and ended before they had any chance to log in at all.
    johnnyreklaw#1518 said:

    Totally disagree with the suggestion. The market nearly crashed on Xbox, the one platform still having a somewhat decent economy. With notice, the market would have been destroyed for the next 2 months. I'd rather be pleasantly surprised.

    Agreed. You can always see the effects of the "expected" sales, like Winterfest and the Jubilee, months in advance, as they distort people's spending habits.
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